Introduction
The
Library - the treasure house of books and periodicals - is a centre of
intellectual activity of any institution. The MIT Library has about
50,000 volumes consisting of books, bound volumes of periodicals, reports
and standard specifications on stock and subscribes to 274 periodicals,
in a number of areas and subjects pertaining to the courses offered and
research work carried out at MIT. A limited collection of material
of general interest is also available.
Membership
The
membership is open to all students, teaching staff, non-teaching staff,
technical and administrative staff.
How to become a member:
STUDENTS:
The
library will prepare the borrowers cards and keep ready for issue to the
new students as soon as the Roll Numbers are allotted to them by the office.
TEACHING STAFF
The
library will prepare borrower's cards as soon as the library gets the information
from the office regarding their appointment.
NON-TEACHING STAFF
Issue
of library tickets is on specific application which should be forwarded
by the respective Heads of School/Dept/Divisions/Librarian.
RESEARCH SCHOLARS
Issue
of library tickets is on application which should duly be recommended by
the guide and forwarded by the concerned Head of Department.
 CLASSIFICATION
Books
are classified as per subject by Universal Decimal Classification Scheme
and periodicals by placement numbers. More details are displayed
in respective stack rooms.
MITALS
(MIT Automated Library System)
This
library has installed computers for information Network Systems in the
year 1990. This library has one file server and 2 work stations,
one at the Service counter, and the other for information retrieval by
students. It is a menu driven, interactive, user-friendly package
designed with utmost care to meet the students information needs, such
as the availability of books, status of the books, user details etc.
Special
Services Offered
 BOOK
BANK
A
Special book bank consisting of multiple copies of text books prescribed
for various courses of text books prescribed for various courses is available
for use by the economically weaker sections of the students and they may
contact the Librarian for more details.
REPROGRAPHY
Limited Reprographic service is available on payment.
The charges currently are Re.0.50/- per page without paper and Re.0.35/-
per page with paper subject to copyright restrictions.
MICROFORM DOCUMENT
Microform
Document reading and reproduction facility is available. The charges
currently are Rs.1.25/- per copy for taking copies from negative mode and
Rs.2.50 per copy for taking copies from positive mode.
VIDEO
FACILITY
The
library has acquired a fair number of video lessons and the screening facility
is available in the library.
IEEE Student Branch
Library
105
IEEE Journals are received by this library. These journals are only
for reference in the library.
Article
Alert Service
List
of important articles form the journals received in the MIT library is
displayed in the notice board.
 SEMINAR-CUM-WORKSHOP
-
Seminar-cum-workshop
on "Computerised Information Retrieval" (1987)
-
Seminar-cum-workshop
on "Effective Utilisation of books" (1989)
-
Seminar-cum-workshop
on "Effective role of library in engineering education" (1990)
-
Seminar
on "Library for 21st Century" organised in connection with Birth
Centenary of Dr. S.R. Renganathan (Father of Library science) (1992).
-
Seminar
on "Recent trends in Information Retrieval" (1997)
This library provides a good quantum of service not only to its 993 clientele
but also acts as good resources centre for other engineering collages.
The choicely collection of documents are really appreciated by the alumnus.
It has started building up CD-ROM disks with the available budget resource.
WORKING HOURS
Weekday
: 08:00 to 20:00
Saturday
: 09:00 to 16:45
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